{"id":64639,"date":"2024-06-03T12:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/india-election-results-exit-polls-narendra-modi-victory"},"modified":"2024-06-03T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T03:50:16","slug":"india-elections-exit-polls-show-narendra-modi-expected-to-win-historic-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64639","title":{"rendered":"India elections: exit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Modi\u2019s ruling BJP may gain a two-thirds majority, amid allegations of intimidation of opposition candidates and Muslim voter suppression<\/p>\n<p>Voting has come to a close in India\u2019s mammoth elections, as exit polls widely predicted prime minister Narendra Modi would win a historic third term in proceedings marred by allegations of irregularities.<\/p>\n<p>The election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/18\/india-mammoth-election-explained-narendra-modi-bjp\">the longest and largest<\/a> in India\u2019s history with almost a billion eligible voters, began in mid-April. As it progressed over seven phases until 1 June, a deadly heatwave gripped the country, with temperatures almost touching 50C in areas, leading to deaths of dozens of voters and polling officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/india-election-results-exit-polls-narendra-modi-victory\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modi\u2019s ruling BJP may gain a two-thirds majority, amid allegations of intimidation of opposition candidates and Muslim voter suppressionVoting has come to a close in India\u2019s mammoth elections, as exit polls widely predicted prime minister Narendra Modi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,3091,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-india-elections-2024","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64639\/revisions\/64640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}